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mices , by which congregations in places of worship bad been interrupted , during the year , he would next advert . These disgraceful occurrences pervaded not distant parts of the country only , but even in London , and in the vicinity of the metropolis , congregations had not been exempt from this species of persecution . A
congregation in Newton Street , Holborn , had been assuiled by a mob . At Camberwell , the Rev . Mr . limes complained of interruption At Ilfbrd some interesting and amiable ladies had suffered by a remoTal of their shutters and the fracture of their windows , and some opuleut inhabitants by an instigated rabble .
At Ludgershall , in the county of Wilts , field-preaching was prevented . At Oocondori ) in Northamptonshire , a similar pro hibition occurred to a Baptist minister . There Mr . Bolton , the rector of tbe parish , was the prohibitory Painful was the thought that such bigotry should exist in
this land of liberty—and England was yet that laud of liberty—whilst they had heard dining the week that in distant and barbarous regions such evils did not exist : that , without interruption , the Missionary might in India , beneath the shade of a tree , freely tell his heart-affecting tale ; an
Itinerant , unmolested under an ancient cross or gothic ruin , might in Ireland address the interesting- ' villagers ; and be greeted with rapturous welcome , as he unfolded the message of life and peace among' the groves that adorn the islands of the Southern Sea . ( Loud cheers . )
At Haslemere interruptions had been occasioned by birds sent into the chapel ) and extinguishing the lights . At Cannock , near WalsalL in Staffordshire , disturbances arose from howling , groaning and whistling , by external violence and internal noise { Shame . ) At Hammersmithy , so near to London , disgraceful shenes' of & like nature were exhibited .
There a Society of Baptists were interrupted in the performance of one of their sacramental ceremonies . The windows at KirioU ) near Ipswich , had been covered with soil . At Wolston , near Coventry , acts equally improper have been performed . There
Mr . Sawbridge , the clergyman , has threatened that no place shall he registered for twelve months . The impotence of that threat the Committee will expose . They will try the question with Mr . Sawbiidge , and evince that no bishop or archdeacon
can be beyond the controml of the law ; and if they do not instantaneously record the notice of the registry , when left by the poorest villager , notwithstanding their frowns , on them the lav * shall frown , ( A pplause . J These poorest and moat illiterate peasants may not be borne down by
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those who conceive that power constitutes right , and that the possession of wealth entitles them to oppress , { Cheers . J From Horsley ^ near Ashtead , in Surrey , he had read with peculiar interest the leisters of two good men , who were there itinerating and preaching the gospel , in villages where it had not reached , and who feeling heavenly compassion in their hearts ,
and viewing , with weeping , large multitudes perishing for lack of knowledge , wrote to state , that if it cost them their lives , the poor people must not go untaught { Applause . ) Other similar cases had occurred , and it was hardly needful to say , that the Committee had not received these complaints with folded hands or unaffected hearts .
It would be , well if he could say that these were the only means adopted to prevent the progress of truth . Protestant Dissenters bad no hostility to National Schools , although they thought they should be denominated Episcopalian , and not assume a nationality , which their exclusive
principle disclaims ; but they did not treat Dissenting schools with equal toleration . At Dromfield ^ near Sheffield , in the county of York , some excellent Sundayschools had been interrupted by the churchwardens , instigated by the clergyman . They had sought to intimidate by
threatening prosecutions , and by proceedings in the ecclesiastical courts . But the supporters of such institutions were net to he appalled by threats so impotent . On liberal principles let the education of the poor proceed , and then knowledge and love and piety will finally fertilize the land .
These principles had been recognized as to the Ttfacclesjield school , by the Court of Exchequer . Those judges had conferred honour on their characters by sanctioning the Lancasterian or British system of education . In a matter which came
before their court , in which the trustees of the Macclesfield School were concerned ., and in which the question of different sects was involved , all the judg-es , and especially Baron Garrow , approved of the British system . Baron Garrow , in particular , said , " I think well that the children of
the poor , of different sects , should mingle in one school and place of worship ; I think it is a great improvement in our mode of education , as it tends to smooth down some of those roughnesses that are at present but too predominant , which , far the happiness of mankind , are sincerely to be deplored . " { Cheers . )
A measure will probably be introduced into parliament during the present session , if the health of the individual , by whom it is projected ( Mr . Brougham ) , will allow , which demands all tbe considerations that can be bestowed . That bill contemplates
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1819, page 333, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1772/page/53/
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